4th Of July Quotes - Page 3
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.38, Penguin
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin
George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press
Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 and 1741.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.8
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag
sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). “A present for an apprentice [by sir J. Barnard]. To which is added, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] by a citizen of London [T. Tegg].”, p.288
1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.
"America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub
Richard Henry Lee, Mercy Otis Warren (1962). “An Additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican, leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention: to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Oberservations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot”
"The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole. Chapter "The Vision", 1994.
